Backgrounders for the Mubarak Verdict Tomorrow

The Mubarak verdict should come down in the morning. I'll try to post on it some time over the weekend but family commitments may slow down my posting, but here are a couple of backgrounders to understand the results, whichever way it goes:

• A Human Rights Watch Q&A on the trial and the charges;
• Zeinobia's blog has  the basic stats and numbers on the trial.
• A timeline of the trial from Ahram Online.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is in a guesthouse in Jidda and Mu‘ammar Qadhafi is dead; only Mubarak, so far, has faced a court. As I noted earlier a small army of 20,000 police and security forces and 160 armored vehicles are reportedly being deployed around where the court is sitting.